Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-05-05

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By ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events
COLONEL KERsEY COATES will was pro-
bated at Independence, Mo-. on the 29th.
The estate is valued at s., 100000
BIDS were opened and contracts award
ed at Rock Island, III, on the 18th, for
10000 of Upper Mississippi improve
ments.
IT develops that William ] Ayers, who
committed suicide at Kansas City, Mo-,
had been guilty of negotiating forged bills
of lading.
THE Nova Scotia Legislature has Hood
of grievances of the colony before it, on
which the members of the body do a deal
of debating.
THE Vermont Supreme Court has de-
.cided that a conspiracy among workmen
to keep others from working is crime at
common law.
A KNIGHTS OF LABOR committee at
Pittsburgh, Pa, have inaugurated a
general boycott against goods OF P. d. Ar
:mour & Co., of Chicago.
NEW ORLEANS interests are combined tt
make strong showing before the Inter
State Commerce Commission in favor OF
thorough enforcement of the law.
RESPONSES from all parts of the coun
try, called out by recent publications con
corning the President, show great pre-.
ponderance of feeling among Democrats in
favor of his reelection.
THE Emperor of Austria reviewed 40, 000
troops on the Schmerz Plain on the 26th,
in honor Of Archduke Albrecht. There
was a great attendance of spectators, and
the weather was beautiful
~
LORD LANsDowNE has recalled the &C
ceptance of his Irish rent compromise ant
the tenant troubles are renewed. William
O'Brien now announces that he will posi-
lively invade Canada at once.
PETITIONS and memorials, respecting
the troublesome fourth section of the
Interstate Commerce law, continue to
pour into the office of the commission
They are called for short, ''long and short
howls.''
THE recent storm proved very destruc
tive to stock in Northwestern Iowa. Over
one hundred head were frozen in Palo
Alto County. The stock were grazing
when, blinded by the storm, they strayed
off and persisted.
NEW YORK CITY has another officia
crookedness sensation, this time in tn:
tax-assessing department. The property
OF millionaires and railway magnates ap
pears to have been systematically over
looked by the assessors.
ORDERS were issued on the 2Sth to co M
mence the construction of new ten-incf
gun at the Washington Navy Yard for thu
new cruiser Boston. Two ten inch guns
are still at the yard, one nearly completed
and the other well under way.
TIE Pope has sent telegram to EN-
peror William and Prince Bismarck
thanking them for their support of tn
new Prussian Ecclesiastical bill. Tht
dispatch adds that his Holiness desire:
the prosperity OF Germany and the Catho
lie church.
COLONEL SwITZLER, chief the Bureau o
Statistics, is pressing forward as energet
ically as possible the work of collecting
materials for his contemplated report il
regard to the commerce of the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers, and of the bridges which
cross them.
THE general executive board of tn
Knights of Labor, after three days cor
ference with the representatives of tn
stove m olders throughout the country
have decided that they will not interfer
in the present controversy about the ST
Louis patterns.
GEORGE GRAY, attorney for the Northern
Pacific railroad, is advised that the Cana
dian Pacific has begun to carry suga
from the Pacific coast to St Paul at mucl
lower rates than those which prevailet
on our trans-continental lines before the
order of suspension.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD has in
formed customs OmcerS that imported Of
reimported liquors withdrawn for con
sumption after having been warehouseG
are subject to duty on the quantity Offered
for warehouse, and not on that ascer
tanned on withdrawal for consumption.
INDIAN AGENT ANDERSON, at Grow
Creek, OAK, telegraphs Indian Commits
sioner Atkins that the people ordered
from the reservation are leaving quietly.
They seem, the agent says, pleased to b.
relieved from suspense. No troubl i:
feared, though the troops are still there
THE boycotted St Louis stove patterns
were received at the Keely Stove Work:
at Columbia, Pa, on the 18th, and the
molders ordered to work on them. AL
the molders, fifty in number, immediate
" dropped their TOOLS and left the foun
dry. The other departments are at work
CAPTAIN THOMAS PLUNKETT, residen
magistrate of Cork, has been instructed
by the British Government to keep a clos
watch over all circums tances ATTENDING
the departure of Mr.. William O>Brien o.
his way to America to inaugurate 6 cam
paign against the Governor General, tn
Marquis of Lansdowne.
1T is said at Ottawa, Ont, that tn
Marquis of Lansdowne was totally igno
rant of any bargain whatever being mad
with his tenants. If such an agreemen
was made and repudiated, as the dis
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